Type R and VTEC owners

Jono8 said:
It is dreadful (for driving) - speed bumps, cyclists and hairpin/narrow corners.

It is my least favourite road in the area!
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They put speed bumps in? You can barely go fast on it! The hairpins and twisty bits is what makes it fun IMO or was fun when I last went there, and I would imagine a RWD car would be more nice. Traffic tends to build up during the day, but was quiet in early hours.
 
The 8th gen spaceship Civic is arguably the best designed Civic generation, it still looks great and will be one of those retro cool cars in 20 years time, not a fan of the 9th gen find it ugly, but when you see it next to a lot of the bland euroboxes, your golfs, focus, a3's, astras etc, its almost a breath of fresh air.
 
lemonade said:
The 8th gen spaceship Civic is arguably the best designed Civic generation, it still looks great and will be one of those retro cool cars in 20 years time, not a fan of the 9th gen find it ugly, but when you see it next to a lot of the bland euroboxes, your golfs, focus, a3's, astras etc, its almost a breath of fresh air.
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I find that really hard to agree with - the 9th gen (hatch) is a dogs dinner.
 
rodenal said:
I find that really hard to agree with - the 9th gen (hatch) is a dogs dinner.
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Well I agree its a mess, but the point I was making when I spot one amongst the miles and miles of dull white goods like this:

http://www.buyacar.co.uk/img/lrg/volkswagen_golf_hatchback_37739.jpg

and this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...rontansicht,_17._September_2011,_Ratingen.jpg

It's nice to see something with a different shape, styling and breaking connventions, I find it refreshing, hard to explain, the only shame is they could have made it look good by simply redoing the lights and some of the lines, add a bit of curve to it.
 
lemonade said:
Well I agree its a mess, but the point I was making when I spot one amongst the miles and miles of dull white goods like this:

http://www.buyacar.co.uk/img/lrg/volkswagen_golf_hatchback_37739.jpg

and this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...rontansicht,_17._September_2011,_Ratingen.jpg

It's nice to see something with a different shape, styling and breaking connventions, I find it refreshing, hard to explain, the only shame is they could have made it look good by simply redoing the lights and some of the lines, add a bit of curve to it.
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Why comparing standard cars to sporty Type-R Civic? :confused: I saw a really nice MK7 in Red all cleaned up and polished today drying out in the sun. I would pick that MK7 anyday over the new civic and or the new Focus. I'm not a big fan of ford, but the new focus looks pretty nice even though IMO the concept of civic type-r was way nicer.

BTW, Why didn't Honda make a car looking exactly like the concept? They did it for the spaceship which looks how it looks and the 9th gen concept looked mint.. :(

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Isn't this a bit too cheap? http://www.gumtree.com/p/honda/honda-civic-type-s-3-door-1.4-2011-11-reg-/1102708464
 
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lemonade said:
The 8th gen spaceship Civic is arguably the best designed Civic generation, it still looks great and will be one of those retro cool cars in 20 years time, not a fan of the 9th gen find it ugly, but when you see it next to a lot of the bland euroboxes, your golfs, focus, a3's, astras etc, its almost a breath of fresh air.
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Mate, pass it around! stop hoggin it!
 
IC3 said:
Why comparing standard cars to sporty Type-R Civic? :confused: I saw a really nice MK7 in Red all cleaned up and polished today drying out in the sun. I would pick that MK7 anyday over the new civic and or the new Focus. I'm not a big fan of ford, but the new focus looks pretty nice even though IMO the concept of civic type-r was way nicer.

BTW, Why didn't Honda make a car looking exactly like the concept? They did it for the spaceship which looks how it looks and the 9th gen concept looked mint.. :(

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Isn't this a bit too cheap? http://www.gumtree.com/p/honda/honda-civic-type-s-3-door-1.4-2011-11-reg-/1102708464
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I'm not talking about the CTR, i'm talking about the 9th gen in general, hence the mention of "9th gen" in my posts and not "CTR". If you like the Golf then that's your choice, IMO they look as interesting as my dishwasher, people always bang on about how dull Toyota's are, yet the last few Golf's look like anonymous 90's euroboxes.

As for the concept, it's not always feasible to put one straight to production, the moneymen probably had the last say on the new CTR back end.
 
lemonade said:
I'm not talking about the CTR, i'm talking about the 9th gen in general, hence the mention of "9th gen" in my posts and not "CTR". If you like the Golf then that's your choice, IMO they look as interesting as my dishwasher, people always bang on about how dull Toyota's are, yet the last few Golf's look like anonymous 90's euroboxes.
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Well, I don't like the 8th gen of civic's, when I saw the concept of the new 'CTR' I thought that honda made a nice looking civic. But the more I look at the actual 9th gen civic (bare bones and 'CTR') the more I don't like it. Isn't the new Focus RS more refreshing with their new technologies? Not mentioning the 4x4...

It might be just me, as I don't like the looks of most modern cars. I'm probably not the only one on this forum though, just not my taste. The car manufactures are trying too hard with producing something "refreshing" and it usually ends up looking like poo... :rolleyes:

lemonade said:
As for the concept, it's not always feasible to put one straight to production, the moneymen probably had the last say on the new CTR back end.
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Are you talking about the production costs or futuristic facelift version of this civic?
 
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